Cloud-enhanced video gaming: It's too early yet for fast, 100-percent, cloud-based gaming services, but the combination of cloud and console will create the most-powerful games of the year.

Video gamers: Expect to see professional video game events selling premium access to online streaming of certain events. This new entertainment outlet offers big prize money to the winners (like the $100K prize money for winners of the Gfinity eSports championship in London).

Data protection: More wearable technology and more connected devices will produce vast amounts of data, in turn requiring newer and more sophisticated means of security.

No matter the device or application, any successful new technology will offer access to information we want in a way that's fast, secure, reliable, and enjoyable. And like nearly every tech system in use today, emerging designs will rely on quality wired and wireless network infrastructure for connectivity.